It’s been a busy spring for me and finding the time to do a blog post just hasn’t happened, but here’s an update on my beekeeping adventures this year. A bit long winded, but I hope you enjoy it. I went into the winter with 6 1/2 hives (1/2 Read more…
March has been pretty dry and warm in Colorado and we finally got our first precipitation of the month yesterday. Luckily, we missed the snow which went south of us and today it’s supposed to be back up in the 60’s again. With all this warm weather, flowers and trees Read more…
In my last post, I mentioned that Laura’s hive was queenless and there were no signs that any of the queens that had hatched made it back from their mating flights. I spent the week trying to buy a new queen locally, but all my efforts turned up empty handed. Read more…
I started out this year with one hive and one queen. Through splits and swarms and packages, I’m now up to seven queens for seven hives (brides for brothers?). Of the seven, two queens are home grown (raised from eggs of BnB1’s queen). All of them seem to be doing Read more…